I've been so caught up in work lately so I barely had time to read. It took me a couple of weeks to finish
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
Overall, I really liked the story. I thought it was really original, and also very exciting at times. But there are also parts in the book that I found very confusing. When I first came across such a section, I reread it but still couldn't make much sense of it. So later on in the story I just read them and didn't bother to try to understand. Although in the end these sections didn't stop me from understanding the storyline, they took away some of the pleasure of reading this book. It could be this was a problem for me because I'm not a native English-speaker, and I found his writing style overall a little complicated.
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Originally Posted by jgaiser
I've been rereading a number of Stephenson books lately. Finished Cryptonomicon, Zodiac and Snow Crash. I love his story telling, but sometimes his endings are a bit huh?
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Yup, I agree. When I had 10 more pages to go, I had the feeling the story was pretty much at an end. I really felt those next 10 pages weren't necessary and just a little bit confusing.
I don't really know what to read next. I've got the Hunger Games Trilogy lined up because of all the good commentaries they've been getting. But I also purchased some Agatha Christie books that I might read first, just to get away from the Fantasy and Sci-Fi genre for a while.